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Acknowledgements
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An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I
PART III THE MALE/FEMALE EARNINGS RATIO
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b. Human Capital Explanations of the Gender Wage Gap
Solomon W. Polachek (1995)
1. `Earnings Over the Life Cycle: What Do Human Capital Models Explain?', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 42 (3), 267-89
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Mary Corcoran
Greg J. Duncan (1979)
2. `Work History, Labor Force Attachment, and Earnings Differences Between the Races and Sexes', Journal of Human Resources, XIV (1), 3-20
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Paula England
Melissa S. Herbert
Barbara Stanek Kilbourne
3. `Lori L. Reid and Lori McCreary Megdal (1994), `The Gendered Valuation of Occupations and Skills: Earnings in 1980 Census Occupations', Social Forces, 73 (1) September, 65-100
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Jerry A. Jacobs
Ronnie J. Steinberg (1990)
4. `Compensating Differentials and the Male-Female Wage Gap: Evidence from the New York State Comparable Worth Study', Social Forces, 69 (2), 439-68
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c. Discrimination as the Cause of the Gender Wage Gap
Sharon M. Oster (1975)
5. `Industry Differences in the Level of Discrimination Against Women', Quarterly Journal of Economics, LXXXIX, 215-29
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Barbara R. Bergmann
William Darity. Jr (1981)
6. `Social Relations, Productivity, and Employer Discrimination', Monthly Labor Review, 109 (4), 47-9
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Elaine Sorensen (1990)
7. `The Crowding Hypothesis and Comparable Worth', Journal of Human Resources, XXV (1), 55-89
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Barbara F. Reskin
Catherine E. Ross (1992)
8. `Jobs, Authority and Earnings Among Managers: The Continuing Signficance of Sex', Work and Occupations, 19 (4), 342-65
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Sanders Korenman
David Neumark (1992)
9. `Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages', Journal of Human Resources, XXVII (2), 233-55
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Edward P. Lazear
Sherwin Rosen (1990)
10. `Male-Female Wage Differentials in Job Ladders', Journal of Labor Economics, 8 (1) Part 2, S106-23
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Robert G. Wood
Mary E. Corcoran
Paul N. Courant (1993)
11. `Pay Differences Among the Highly Paid: The Male Female Earnings Gap in Lawyers' Salaries', Journal of Labor Economics, 11 (3), 417-41
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Robert Cabral
Marianne A. Ferber
Carole A. Green (1981)
12. `Men and Women in Fiduciary Institutions: A Study of Sex Differences on Career Development', Review of Economics and Statistics, LXIII, 573-80
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d. Recent Developments in the Gender Wage Gap
Reed Neil Olsen
Edwin A. Sexton (1996)
13. `Gender Differences in the Returns to and the Acquisition of On-The-Job Training', Industrial Relations, 35 (1), 59-77
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Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn (1994)
14. `Rising Wage Inequality and the U.S. Gender Gap', American Economic Review, 84 (2), 23-8
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Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn (1996)
15. `Wage Structure and Gender Earnings Differentials: an International Comparison', Economica, 63 (250S), S29-62
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PART IV POLICIES TO IMPROVE WOMEN'S STATUS IN THE LABOR MARKET
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Barbara R. Bergmann (1989)
16. `Does the Market for Women's Labor Need Fixing?', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3 (1), 43-60
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Shelly J. Lundberg
Richard Startz (1983)
17. `Private Discrimination and Social Intervention in Competitive Labor Markets', American Economic Review, LXXIII, 340-47
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Jonathan S. Leonard (1984)
18. `Antidiscrimination or Reverse Discrimination: The Impact of Changing Demographics, Title VII, and Affirmative Action on Productivity', Journal of Human Resources, XIX (2)Spring, 145-74
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Barbara R. Bergmann (1989)
19. `What the Common Economic Arguments Against Comparable Worth are Worth', Journal of Social Issues, 45 (4), 67-80
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A. Zabalza
Z. Tzannatos (1985)
20. `The Effect of Britain's Anti-Discriminatory Legislation on Relative Pay and Employment', Economic Journal, 95, 679-99
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Jonathan S. Leonard (1984)
21. `The Impact of Affirmative Action on Employment', Journal of Labor Economics, 2 (4), 439-63
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George Johnson
Gary Solon (1986)
22. `Estimates of the Direct Effects of Comparable Worth Policy', American Economic Review, 76 (5), 1117-25
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R.G. Gregory
P. McMahon
B. Whittingham (1985)
23. `Women in the Australian Labor Force: Trends, Causes and Consequences', Journal of Labor Economics, 3 (1) Part 2, S293-309
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Christopher J. Ruhm
Jackqueline L. Teague (1997)
24. `Parental Leave Policies in Europe and North America', in Francine D. Blau and Ronald G. Ehrenberg (eds), Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace, Chapter 5, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 133-56 and references
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PART V IMPACT OF WOMEN'S LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION ON THE FAMILY
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Robert J. Willis (1987)
25. `What Have We Learned from the Economics of the Family?', American Economic Review, 77 (2), 68-81
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Josephine E. Olson
Irene Hanson Frieze
Ellen G. Detlefsen (1990)
26. `Having it All? Combining Work and Family in a Male and a Female Profession', Sex Roles, 23 (9/10), 515-35
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Dair L. Gillespie (1971)
27. `Who Has the Power? The Marital Struggle', Journal of Marriage and Family, 33 (3), 445-58
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Richard J. Claycombe (1987)
28. `The Wife's Wage and the Division of Work at Home', American Economist, XXXI (2), 13-21
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Joni Hersch
Leslie S. Stratton (1994)
29. `Housework, Wages, and the Division of Housework Time for Employed Spouses', American Economic Review, 84 (2), 120-25
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Glenna Spitze (1986)
30. `The Division of Task Responsibility in U.S. Households: Longitudinal Adjustments to Change', Social Forces, 64 (3), 689-701
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Rae Lesser Blumberg (1988)
31. `Income Under Female Versus Male Control: Hypotheses From a Theory of Gender Stratification and Data from the Third World', Journal of Family Issues, 9 (1), 51-84
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Name Index
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